brotherly
adj/ˈbɹʌð.ə.li/UK/ˈbɹʌð.ɚ.li/US
Etymology
From Middle English brotherly, from Old English brōþorlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *brōþerlīk, from Proto-Germanic *brōþērlīkaz, equivalent to brother + -ly (adjectival suffix). Cognate with Dutch broederlijk (“brotherly”), German brüderlich (“brotherly”), Swedish broderlig (“brotherly”). Piecewise doublet of friarly.
- inherited from *brōþērlīkaz✻
- inherited from *brōþerlīk✻
- inherited from brōþorlīċ
- inherited from brotherly
Definitions
Of or characteristic of brothers.
- brotherly love
- Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate; but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.
- They are modelling in parvo around them the predestined Greater America of the mightier, holier, brotherlier comradeship which it seems America has been called into being to bring to pass for the world:— […]
In the manner of a brother, as a brother, as brothers.
- Praising and pleading him, / Lovingly needing him, / Brotherly feeding him, / Preaching and speeding him, / Blessing, succeeding Him, / Thus is the Master near,— / Thus is He here!
- I might have seen him, and talked with him brotherly, face to face.
- "What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA